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When did you fall in love with engineering? I fell in love with engineering through an internship at a pulp mill after my junior year in college. I climbed inside a 10-story boiler during shut-down, watched contractors weld and install stainless steel piping in a caustic heating system I designed, and solved a pumping problem that had been shutting down the plant repeatedly. It was cool stuff that mattered.

When did you fall in love with engineering? When my dad would help me with my elementary school math homework, he said it was important to learn math, so I would be ready to take thermodynamics when I was in college. For many years, I believed him and worked hard in my math classes all the way through high school knowing that someday I would need to be ready for my college thermodynamics class. It wasn't until I was thinking about what I would study in college that I learned only engineers take thermodynamics.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I fell in love with engineering when I started working on the Parkwood Technology Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. I worked together with a few other Stanford women engineers, Parkwood Primary School, and Bottomup (a local education nonprofit) to design and build the Net Positive community center over three years.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I cannot remember a time in my life when I was not fascinated by buildings. I was talented in art and math and spent my spare time enjoying the challenge of puzzle style games. Reflecting on my childhood passions, it's clear that my choice to pursue a career in building systems was a perfect fit. As an engineer of HVAC systems, my daily challenges include solving multi-variable puzzles.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I fell in love with problem solving at a very early age. One of my favorite childhood activities was putting together puzzles, and I often had to be torn away from the puzzle table until it was completed. I believe this passion was the foundation for enjoying math and physics problems.

When did you fall in love with engineering? It all started when I was growing up in Dublin. My dad is an engineer and always had great answers to my questions about the world we live in. I had so many questions. I even recall my math teacher telling me I asked too many questions.

When did you fall in love with engineering? My dad was a mechanical engineer and is one of the people I admire the most. I think I always wanted to be an engineer, so I could be just like him. Math and science came easy to me in school, and my father encouraged me to go into engineering from a very young age.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I fell in love with engineering during my study abroad year at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I was always tinkering with things at home as a kid trying to figure out they worked, but I didn’t fall in love with engineering until my third year in college when I started taking my major courses.

When did you fall in love with engineering? I decided on mechanical engineering between my junior and senior years of high school, but I fell in love with it during my junior year of college, when I had my first class in building energy systems.